Ford Motor Company · 9 hours ago
Senior Embedded Platform Engineer
Palo Alto, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expFord Motor Company is a global leader in the automotive industry, seeking a Senior Embedded Platform Engineer to develop low-level software for vehicle electronic control units (ECUs). The role involves specifying requirements, designing, implementing, and testing both bare metal and RTOS software to create a scalable platform, as well as optimizing power and performance of embedded systems.
AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesManufacturingTransportation
Responsibilities
Specify requirements, design, implement, and test both bare metal and RTOS low-level software for creating a scalable platform
Develop multicore, time / safety critical software architectures
Work with/resolve ambiguity in requirements/specifications/designs
Create elegant, efficient real-time software components and interfaces
Develop software component testing methodologies and implementations to ensure maturity/stability/release readiness
Work with hardware and debuggers at a bench and HIL level to verify software operation
Define system-level power / compute / communication requirements and implement solutions that allow different applications to achieve different combinations of configurations
Profile power / CPU / bus usage and identify opportunities for optimization on the submodule as well as system level
Develop comprehensive test plans and perform thorough testing to validate firmware functionality, stability, and performance under various conditions, including low power modes
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
8+ years of relevant experience in embedded software development using C
Experience with Automotive MCU's from NXP, TI, STM
Experience with RTOS's such as u-velOSity, FreeRTOS, safeRTOS
Experience with bare metal and RTOS software development including board bring-up
Experience with JIRA and Confluence
Experience with git
Experience with build systems such as make and bazel
Experience with scripting languages such as python or bash
Knowledge of electrical engineering fundamentals including circuit analysis and design
Excellent communication skills
Preferred
Experience in driver development and RTOS integration
Experience with fundamental hardware components on PCB and their analysis tools
Experience with ISO26262 development
Experience with Automotive technologies such as CAN, LIN, UDS, DoIP
Experience with Automotive testing tools such as Vector Canoe
Knowledge of MISRA
Knowledge of commercial compilers and embedded debugging tools such as GHS and Keil
Benefits
Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
Tuition assistance
Established and active employee resource groups
Paid time off for individual and team community service
A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
Company
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